Our favourite sites for shopping, meeting new people or just browsing...
A shop in Newcastle specialising in gashapon, trading figures and other anime goodies. You can find their store here:
48 Low Friar Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 5UE
Tel: 0191 2619908
AnimUK is an online only, UK based retailer of anime, comic book and gaming merchandise selling only 100% officially licensed products.
Terrific online store with a wide varierty of asian goods and a very professional interface. Everything from Mecha to Guidebooks!
A website selling items for cosplayers - everything from wigs to full outfits, you can find it here.
Importer of Japanese toys and figures. A large and varied collection of merchandise available.
A very well stocked and excellently priced anime figure and toy site.
Genki Gear create awesome, exclusive Anime influenced t-shirts.
That's not all - check out the hoodies, mugs and postcards - some of the most stylish geek-chic online!
Small UK firm specialising in Gundam Kits - a haven for mecha fans!
An online retailer of Gashapon, Mecha, Transformers and other anime related figures, its nicely laid out and the prices are good too.
Kapow Toys is a UK based toyshop that sells a wide range of Macross, Street Fighter and Transformers toys, along with many others. Shipping is very fast and the service is friendly, highly recommended.
Specialising in Japanese gaming merchandise, Neo Gamer is the best place to find mugs, bags and t-shirts for J-gaming enthusiasts.
A very tidy website moving into the anime market - Bleach a speciality. Prices are pretty good too, check them out.
The Aladdins cave of Anime and Manga shops, and certainly one of the most established. Huge stock, fast fast fast mail order!
Contact:
33 The Wicker, Sheffield, S3 8HS
Tel: 0114 275 8905
Fax: 0114 249 3238
Japanese anime and manga toys and goods in Manchester, England, with a full range of various gashapon mini figures and keyrings.
Tuckys Anime.com Providing the UK with official anime goods at affordable prices
Mail order company, excellent prices on import anime. Also publish Sabrina Online, one of my favourite comics.
Contact
85 Croydon Road, Keston, Kent, BR2 8HU
Tel: (020) 8325 9507
A cosplay store with a very tidy website. They are based in the States, but offer worldwide shipping.
Home of our mascot designer Xeph, this is a group of extremely taleneted artists whose skills are available for hire.
A multi-lingual social networking site with a strong emphasis on anime, manga and Japanese culture. Well worth a look, it features recommendations, chat and picture galleries, everything a good social networking site needs!
Hot new UK-based anime site covering the latest releases in the UK.
Very well informed website that seems to know everything that's going on in the anime world - it isn't UK based, but its still useful.
Polished anime site with plenty of content, a nice layout and some interesting views.
Long running and nicely stocked anime wallpaper site with plenty to please everyone.
The power behind Alcon and keen participants of industry events, AnimeLeague also has a bustling community that's well worth checking out.
Pretty much the only resource you'll ever need for wallpapers and Japanese scans of a high quality. If you want the really hi-res items you'll have to pay (a paltry $10 will get you enough to last years)
A site dedicated to memorable quotes taken from anime and manga. You never knew how profound those Japanese creatives could be until now ^.-
A great site with some really great features, all handled with a sense of fun. Highly recommended.
One of the oldest and most respected UK sites, Britanime is a mecca for information about UK fandom, with news, information on clubs throughout the UK and convention news aplenty.
Excellent news site with plenty of up to the minute reports and reviews.
Home of the Derby-based Japanese culture convention, next held in September 2012.
An entertaining and informative blog with links to MasakoX' lively video reviews (which include some sweet animation of their own!)
Well worth an oggle.
Beez have released some massive titles in the UK, including Haruhi, Gundam SEED and Mai HiME. Their website has UK news, information on their titles and a forum (scroll down for the English area).
Crunchyroll's streaming anime services offer you the very latest shows direct from Japan. The only place on Earth to get this season's anime today!
The longest established UK Anime distributor, and with an eye toward fan favourites and monster hits such as Bleach, Ghost in the Shell and Death Note. The website has loads of videos and information on all their releases.
Manga Entertainemt's other website for fans.
A huge roster of titles have been released by MVM to date, including Lain, Haibane Renmei, Desert Punk and Trigun. Their website has more details of all their titles.
Varied and professional looking home of many UK manga artists - view and buy their wares here!